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Theodore George

 

Education

Ph.D., Villanova University, 2000
Fulbright Scholar, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1998
M.A., Villanova University, 1996
B.A., Whitman College, 1993

Areas of Interest

European Philosophy since Kant
Hermeneutical Philosophy
Philosophy of Art
Classical American Philosophy

 

Associate Professor George focuses on European philosophy after Kant with emphasis on current receptions of classical German philosophy and on hermeneutical philosophy. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (SUNY Press, 2006; paperback, 2007) and several articles on figures in German Idealism, Heidegger, Gadamer, and others in current European philosophy. George is also the English translator of Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (SUNY Press, forthcoming; originally published in German as Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie, Mohr Siebeck, 2006). His research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), as well as by the Rothrock Fellows Program and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. George holds a PhD from Villanova University.